Synonyms for Valve
vælvvalve

Princeton's WordNet

1. valvenoun

   a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it

2. valvenoun

   device in a brass wind instrument for varying the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone

3. valvenoun

   control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid

4. valvenoun

   the entire one-piece shell of a snail and certain other molluscs

5. valvenoun

   one of the paired hinged shells of certain molluscs and of brachiopods

Matched Categories

1. • Control
   • Device
   • Shell
   • Structure

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1. List of paraphrases for "valve":

   valves, tap, faucet, stopcock, stop-valve, sub-valve

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1. Jonathan Mitchell:

   Most persons with an autism-spectrum disorder have never expressed their opinions on someone’s blog and never will. The neurodiverse often reach a vulnerable audience, as many persons on the spectrum have low self-esteem. Neurodiversity provides a tempting escape valve.

2. Morgan Griffith:

   I think it’s a tool that we ought to have as member, it’s a safety valve that allows members to say, ‘Wait a minute. This agency isn’t working right and we think there’s a better way to do it.’.

3. Samir Kapadia:

   We should not interpret these results to suggest that you can have surgery or transcatheter valve replacement in whoever you want.

4. Claudio Semini:

   For us, it was natural to start to design also an arm, and then the plan is to build two arms and have them both on the robot to create a 'centaur' style of robot. And with the two arms the robot can be deployed to the real area where it needs to do any maintenance work or turn a valve in a rescue scenario or pick up a sample in a contaminated area or just clean up radioactive materials; there's a lot of potential future applications where manipulation is really important.

5. Lou Steinberg:

   Use multi-factor authentication to log in to critical systems … and to prevent unauthorized changes (like turning off power or opening a valve on a dam).